Maid Wars Notes 01: Prin the Pitiless

_{I hope folks will excuse the summary-like nature of what you are about to read. This is actually the text of a response to a comment made on the previous post, but since it adds to Prin's back story, I thought I should put it here.}

From Prin's days as a Greenskirt:

On a routine patrol, her rifle squad would encounter a small BeeDub unit, roving around on its own in the field. The other members of the squad are taken in by its innocuous little noises and beeps and its charming facial expressions. The women shoulder their weapons and kneel over the little drone like school girls over a stray cat.

There is even talk of adopting it.

"Poor thing."

"Are you lost, little guy?"

Then suddenly, Prin impales the intelligent device with her trusty Jet Knife, and raises her rifle.

Prin says nothing to the protests of her squad mates, who complain to the tune of, "Killing a helpless 'bot makes us no better than them!"

Prin doesn't listen, she just waits for the RTD's the BeeDub signaled to break from cover, and guns them down. Since she's the EGOR gunner, in the squad, she has to pick each of the six nimble discs out of the air with multiple kinetic rounds, rather than a single, wide-angle burst from one of her squad mate's SWITCH guns. Prin knocks them all out of the air before the rest of the squad have their rifles up.

Without skipping a beat Prin orders the squad to find cover and set up an ambush. Still in shock, the squad obeys its shortest, smallest, lowest ranking member, and finds hiding places in the area surrounding the clearing.

Within minutes, a Screen Face and a towering Recruiter come onto the scene--obviously to collect any women lured by the bait of the harmless looking BeeDub.

Prin orders the squad to target the Screen Face, while she puts a high-velocity bullet through the armored hide of the Recruiter. (Due to the effectiveness of SWITCH guns, many  Recruiters have been 'dumbed down' to make them less vulnerable to forced conundrum transmissions.) It is over in seconds.

No one objects when Prin collects the chips of all three robots.

When she's finished acquiring her trophies, Prin hands the broken corpse of the non-functional BeeDub to the corporal in charge of the squad.

"You can adopt it now."

Prin reassumes the point, and continues the patrol.

The next day, Prin is assigned her own squad--and the nickname, Prin the Pitiless.